1947 Movies

Life with Father

Written by: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A humorous look at a turn-of-the-century New York family, focusing on the father who is both loving and overbearing.

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Road to Rio

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

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The Egg and I

Written by: Betty MacDonald, Chester Erskine, Fred F. Finklehoffe

Directed by: Chester Erskine

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main

Country: United States of America

Outline: On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

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Green Dolphin Street

Directed by: Victor Saville

Starring: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 19th-century New Zealand, a young woman is torn between two men: a sailor and a missionary.

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Mother Wore Tights

Directed by: Walter Lang

Starring: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Rory Calhoun

Country: United States of America

Outline: A musical about a vaudeville couple who raise a family while traveling the country.

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Cass Timberlane

Directed by: George Sidney

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott

Country: United States of America

Outline: A judge falls in love with a younger woman, leading to complications in his personal and professional life.

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The Fugitive

Written by: Dudley Nichols

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz

Country: United States of America

Outline: In a Latin American country where the government has outlawed public religious displays, the last priest (Henry Fonda) in a village seeks refuge in a church, disguised as a peasant. Discovered by an Indian woman, Maria (Dolores del Río), the priest agrees to baptize her children and other poor people in the village. The priest's efforts to escape the military police are constantly upset by the desperate religious demands of the local people, and a beggar intent on turning him in.

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Out of the Past

Written by: Daniel Mainwaring

Directed by: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

Country: United States of America

Outline: A private investigator is lured out of his quiet life to investigate the disappearance of a young woman's husband, only to find himself entangled in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder.

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Monsieur Verdoux

Written by: Charles Chaplin

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Marilyn Nash

Country: United States of America

Outline: A charming man with a dark secret, Monsieur Verdoux, supports his family by marrying and murdering wealthy women, leading to a series of darkly comedic events.

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Written by: Philip Dunne

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young widow rents a seaside cottage and becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner, leading to an unexpected and enduring relationship.

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Miracle on 34th Street

Written by: George Seaton, Valentine Davies

Directed by: George Seaton

Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A department store Santa Claus claims to be the real Santa, leading to a court case to determine his sanity and authenticity. The film explores themes of belief and the Christmas spirit.

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Odd Man Out

Written by: R.C. Sherriff, F.L. Green

Directed by: Carol Reed

Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: A wounded fugitive's dark odyssey through the streets of Belfast. Following a 'fundraising' robbery which goes horribly wrong, the badly injured, abandoned, and increasingly delirious IRA leader wanders the city in search of an escape route from the British authorities.

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Brute Force

Written by: Richard Brooks, Robert Patterson, John Paxton

Directed by: Jules Dassin

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

Country: United States of America

Outline: An aging convict is determined to escape from prison, but his plans are thwarted by a sadistic warden.

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The Lady from Shanghai

Written by: Orson Welles

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia

Country: United States of America

Outline: Seaman Michael O'Hara becomes entangled in a complex murder plot after joining a yachting cruise with the enigmatic Mrs. Bannister.

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Dark Passage

Written by: Delmer Daves, David Goodis

Directed by: Delmer Daves

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Clifton Young, Houseley Stevenson

Country: United States of America

Outline: An escaped convict, Vincent Parry, undergoes plastic surgery and seeks the truth behind his wife's murder, with the help of a woman named Irene Jansen.

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